In a physical sense, it isn’t ideal to fly halfway around the world to prepare for a Premier League season.

The travelling, the time difference and the conditions have been a challenge, but City have been invited to Hong Kong to help promote the Premier League brand and in that sense they have been great ambassadors.

Craig Shakespeare and his men, along with the rest of the touring party, which include Gerry Taggart and Emile Heskey, have done a great job of representing the club in Hong Kong this week and while the Premier League brand has been well represented, so has the City brand.

Obviously, Liverpool are the big draw over here and they are mobbed wherever they go, but City have certainly earned their own new admirers and the number of locals in Leicester shirts has certainly grown during the week.

Fans in Hong Kong have embraced Leicester City during the Premier League Asia Trophy (Image: Photo by Stanley Chou/Getty Images)

There were a handful at the game on Wednesday when City beat West Brom, a name the stadium announcer didn’t find easy to pronounce, but I suspect there will be even more tomorrow when City take on the Reds in the final.

Today, Taggart and Heskey, who have been kept busy, are involved in a fan meet-and-greet in one of the few bars in Hong Kong (there aren’t that many), which also helps promote City.

The Hong Kong public seem to love their football and City have been greeted like celebrities wherever they have gone.

“We knew that the interest in Asia and Hong Kong in particular was at the forefront of football with the Premier League in particular,” Shakespeare told me.

“From the moment we landed, although it was very early in the morning, you could see the welcome we got.

City haven’t completely immersed themselves into Hong Kong. With the next two weeks of friendly fixtures back home in mind, City have tried to stay as close to UK time as possible.

Hong Kong is seven hours ahead of BST, but the City players have set their watches just four hours ahead so that they don’t need too much time to reset their body clocks when they return to England on Sunday.

They are the only club of the four involved to adopt the approach, and Shakespeare said it will stand them in good stead later on in pre-season.

“The idea behind it is that when we get back to the UK there is the least disruption we can,” Shakespeare explained.

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“We are minus three so for us it is a bit awkward with the press conferences and media commitments because of training times but we are able to work around it.

“From the players’ point of view, the least disruption the better. The staff sometimes it puts us out but that is how it is and we have managed to deal with it very well. It is all geared towards when we get back.”

Schmeichel said it was an approach the players fully backed.

“Obviously a change of seven hours is difficult for the body,” he said.

“It does mean timings in the country are different. It is 9.45am for us now (actually it was 12.45 Local time), our days are probably differently structured to other teams who go onto local time.

“At the moment it has worked well and everyone has been quite happy with it.”

After tomorrow’s final game against Liverpool the tour will be over and while it has been more low key than in Los Angeles last year, which seemed chaotic at times, it has been probably more productive, both on the field and off it.